Hans Bruining is a professor emeritus in geoenvironmental engineering of the Technical University of Technology of Delft, which is ranked 10 as one of the top technical institutes worldwide in Engineering. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam. He is the founder of the Dietz-De Josselin de Jong laboratory. His special interests are the environmental aspects of fossil fuel recovery, enhanced oil recovery and theory and experiments of complex flow processes in porous media. He is review chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineering Journal (SPEJ). He is the recipient of the SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty (2012). The international award recognizes superiority in classroom teaching, excellence in research, significant contributions to the petroleum engineering profession and/or special effectiveness in advising and guiding students.

Klappentext

This book describes fundamental upscaling aspects of single-phase and two-phase porous media flow for application in petroleum and environmental engineering.

Inhalt

Dutch and World-wide Energy recovery. One Phase Flow. Time dependent problems in porous media ow. Multi-Phase Flow. Dispersion in porous media.